In the early 1890s; farmers Albert Maulhardt and John Edward Borchard discovered Ventura County�s favorable conditions for a highly profitable new cash crop: the sugar beet. Not long after inviting sugar mogul Henry T. Oxnard to the area; construction began on a $2 million sugar factory capable of processing two thousand tons of beets daily. The facility brought jobs; wealth and the Southern Pacific rail line. It became one of the country�s largest producers of sugar; and just like that; a town was born. Despite the industry�s demise; the city of Oxnard still owes its name to the man who delivered prosperity. A fifth-generation descendant; local author and historian Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt details the rise and fall of a powerful enterprise and the entrepreneurial laborers who helped create a city.
2016-10-05 2016-10-05File Name: B01M1N3XA2
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